The four remaining players decided to take a five-minute break in the middle of Level 28.
Here are the updated chip counts:
The four remaining players decided to take a five-minute break in the middle of Level 28.
Here are the updated chip counts:
Action was on the flop as it read ![]()
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. Jack Behrens bet 125,000. James Barnett raised all in for about 800,000 more. Behrens called.
Behrens had the draw with the ![]()
, while Barnett had the ![]()
.
The turn was the
and the river came the
to give Barnett the big double.
Jack Behrens opened from under the gun to 250,000 and called after James Barnett three-bet to 600,000 from the button.
Both players checked the ![]()
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flop. Behrens led out for 250,000 on the
turn and Barnett raised to 700,000.
Behrens made the call to see the river fall
. Behrens bet 500,000, leaving himself just 600,000 behind, and Barnett went into the tank for several minutes, cutting out the chips to call before deciding to lay his hand down.
Behrens showed ![]()
for flopped quads and moved up to 2,400,000. Barnett, who had a commanding chip lead a short time ago, fell down to 1,500,000.
Level: 28
Blinds: 50,000/100,000
Ante: 100,000
Danny Chang was all in for 1,200,000 against James Barnett. Chang showed ![]()
and was up against Barnett's ![]()
.
Chang remained in the lead on a board of ![]()
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and doubled up to 2,600,000.
Barnett was knocked down to 3,400,000.
Bryan Garret raised to 160,000 preflop. James Barnett three-bet to 500,000. Garret called and turned over his cards thinking he had been forced all in. After a brief discussion and agreement that it was a misunderstanding, in a show of good faith, Barnett also turned over his cards and called what was needed to cover the rest of Garret's stack.
Garret had the ![]()
and would need to come from behind against the ![]()
.
The board would not help him though as it ran out the ![]()
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and Garret was gone in fifth place.
James Barnett and Danny Chang were involved in a blind versus blind battle on a flop of ![]()
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. Barnett checked and Chang bet 100,000.
Barnett called to see the
on the turn. He checked again and Chang put in a bet of 325,000. This time Barnett shoved a stack of 100,000 chips into the middle to put Chang all in.
Chang quickly folded and fell to 1,150,000. Barnett is now up to 3,800,000.
Bobby Schmidt and James Barnett got into a pre-flop raising war that ended with Schmidt all in for his tournament life.
He showed ![]()
and needed to win a race against the ![]()
of Barnett. The ![]()
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gave Barnett a set and Schmidt was eliminated in sixth place, earning $6,069.
With that pot, Barnett has taken a commanding chip lead with 3,300,000.
Jack Behrens was second to act pre-flop and put in a raise to 250,000. Danny Chang put him all in from the big blind and Behrens called.
Jack Behrens: ![]()
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Danny Chang: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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to give Behrens two pair with an ace kicker, counterfeiting Chang's pocket fives.
Behrens was all in for 960,000 and doubled to around two million.
Leo Abbe raised to 225,000 from early position. Chris Minton moved all in from the button.
"I don't like it but I call" said Abbe and turned over the ![]()
, which was dominated by the ![]()
of Minton.
But there was a ten in the window as the flop came the ![]()
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. The turn was the
and the rver came the
.
The chip stacks were very close and it was counted out to confirm that Minton was covered and gone in seventh place.